<p>I wouldn’t recommend lying on an application, but then again, this isn’t as big a deal as some posters are making it out to be. Based on the info OP provided, if I was a NW adcom that found out about this, I would probably let it slide.</p>
<p>^ You’d be the most lenient adcom in the world then, if you’d let a lie slide…</p>
<p>How do you know what adcoms are like/ what they would do?</p>
<p><em>Not trying to start flame war haha</em></p>
<p>It’s one thing to lie of something minor as to how long you’ve participated in a club by a year… But to lie of a job, an EC the OP never joined, an EC he never created? These things were factors in what put him over people who truthfully submitted their app. He made it… Unlike the truthful who were waitlisted or rejected. And adcoms are going to tolerate that?</p>
<p>Whatever I’m putting down “Barack’s VP” as an EC if my lies can be swept under the rug.</p>
<p>^lol see my previous post i shouldve put that i was a nobel prize winner :D</p>
<p>“Secret leader of the Illuminati, 3 years.”</p>
<p>Or is three years too much to believe?!? Should I put 2?? But then I don’t seem dedicated!</p>
<p>Kind of off topic, but I remember my youth group leader tell a story of a guy, when responding why he wanted to go to Michigan State (I think), he wote of how he traveled the world, created eternal peace, won a Nobel Peace Prize, saved the world, solved global warming, etc, but he never went to college.</p>
<p>He got in!</p>
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<p>Like the OP, you’re missing the point.</p>
<p>you’re absolutely right. it IS morally wrong. and here’s the news for you: exaggeration DOES NOT MEAN LYING. exaggeration would be something like you said you were involved in a club that you didn’t really do much in or that you recruited hundreds of new members to your club. what you did was lying. i sure hope you get caught. i feel sorry for the school. then again, you might’ve snucked a little green bill with the face of washington to the app readers for all we know.</p>
<p>I doubt they’d take a 1 dollar bribe. Just sayin’.</p>
<p>its clearly very wrong to lie on an app and it in no way can be justified… but honestly lets say you do stretch things… if its not a concrete lie… you cant really be expelled. You can create a feeling of a much different picture by using certain words without actually giving hard numbers… and lets say … after you graduate you do get caught… and your 30… is your whole world going to stop because your school now says you didnt actually graduate? i mean come on… no… after that initial few years out of college and grad school… no one really cares about where u went to college…</p>
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Wrong. People lose jobs over stuff like this. It isn’t worth the risk.</p>
<p>It is just wrong, even if there were no risk.
As it is, the OP would asked the question because he is already feeling guilty and anxious. He knows that it was wrong, too.</p>
<p>OMG i cant believe it, northwestern AO is like this??</p>
<p>now im just really worried… considering there are just so many ppl who lie in their apps… how many of them get in?</p>
<p>this thread in a way is advocating lying and applying to NU lol…</p>
<p>or else worried135 is just really smart… hes probably on waitlist now, and trying to draw attention and get the NU AO double checking their admits’ stats so that some liars would get caught, and then he would be off the waitlist~</p>
<p>um… im thinking if his real ID ever came up on this thread…</p>
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<p>Which I’d bet that you cheated to get. You expect us to believe that inflating your ECs was the first time you cheated? </p>
<p>It’s like people who cry about getting caught cheating trying to get people believe it’s the first time they ever did it. LOL!</p>
<p>Lol I think this person got there answer on this thread</p>
<p>/// after you graduate you do get caught… and your 30… is your whole world going to stop because your school now says you didnt actually graduate?/// </p>
<p>Just be a politician and you will not have to worry about it.</p>
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<p>of this thread? what IS the point?</p>
<p>From the replies, I’m getting the message that I shouldn’t have exaggerated my ECs for moral reasons etc. But what I really wanted to know is my likelihood of getting caught. I know everyone says that I can be expelled or have my degree rescinded, but has anyone ever heard of this actually happening to anyone? Don’t tell me people like Adam Wheeler because people like him are just stupid. He forged entire transcripts and letters of reference. I want to know if anyone has heard of someone who lied/exaggerated about ECs, got caught, and was given severe penalties.</p>
<p>By the way, Adam Wheeler would never have been caught had he not gotten greedy and plagiarized his Rhodes scholarship essay.</p>